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Expulsion
Selefu 29 October 2018
BEC Needs To Get Its House In Order
BEC is tasked with conducting school examinations and any other exam for the Ministry of Basic Education and issue certificates. On its website the exam body clearly states that: “BEC’s key business activities include examinations and...
Monitor Editor 29 October 2018
Tennis Coaches Complete ITF Coaching Conference
ITF development officer-Southern Region, Tapiwa Masunga told Sport Monitor that the conference was a success and they achieved their objective. She said the feedback from coaches and speakers was positive. One of the speakers, Michael Ebert from...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 29 October 2018
Mad Cobra's Venom Stuns Kurupt
The two clashed during The Voyage contest that was held at Boipuso Hall on Friday night. The Mad Cobra from Delta Force Boxing Academy made boxing seem easy when he punished Kurupt of Bond Boxing Gym. Initially, when the bout started, The Mad Cobra...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 29 October 2018
Police XI, Notwane In Dull Draw
The two sides failed to create chances in front of goal. The few chances created were rather wasted efforts by both sides. Police had their first chance at goal as early as the second minute with winger, Mpho Kgomo beating the offside trap and...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 29 October 2018
Football Mourns Lovemore Murirwa
‘Sattar’ and three of his teammates were travelling from Francistown to Sowa Town where their team is based. The players had gone shopping and were returning for training when the accident happened about three kilometres from Sowa....
Koketso Kgoboge 29 October 2018
BW Artists Thrill At KBL's Budweiser Activation
It was not the first time the place hosted the promotion of the product. Revellers were allowed to watch for free and the fun soon heated up when MMP Family hit the stage. The award-winning kwaito group that not so long ago released their album...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 29 October 2018
Mogoditshane police investigate teen rape
Police have identified most cases as date rape with perpetrators often being ex-lovers, casual friends or individuals that victims are familiar with and a few of which victims are attacked and raped. A few months ago a 15-year-old girl, on her...
Pini Bothoko
| 29 October 2018
Barclays Named Botswana's Best Investment Bank
The bank’s managing director (MD), Reinette van der Merwe said the transaction presents their bank as a more modern, fast thinking and relevant organisation that is truly an African bank that is for the people. “We are proud to be the...
Staff Writer 29 October 2018
BIH Launches AppFactory
The initiative, which was conceptualised in collaboration with Microsoft’s 4Afrika Initiative would also assist, select ICT graduates with software development, including secure coding, machine learning, bot framework and data...
Staff Writer 29 October 2018
Unpacked: President Masisi Needs To Chill!!
Our nation is heading for a deliberate disastrous outcome. Friends are becoming enemies, brothers are back stabbing one another. There is a need for calmness, true leadership, most of all President Dr. Mokgweetsi Masisi needs to chill. It is now in...
Correspondent 29 October 2018
The Business Of The Arts
Its potential is limitless. Here in Botswana, the contribution of the cultural and creative industries (CCIs) to Gross Domestic Product has previously been indeterminate, negligible or very low. Indications are that this situation is changing...
Correspondent 29 October 2018
Tribute To My Uncle Motshegetsi Shono Baruti AKA 'Mabijo'
Motshegetsi Shono Baruti, Mabijo or 'Bijos' as he was affectionately known, hails from Tshipana ward in Serowe. Born January 31, 1959, Motshegetsi was the last born to Mr Pelotshweu and Mrs Poloko Baruti. Motshegetsi aka ‘Mabijo’...
Correspondent 29 October 2018
Gov't Assembles A Team Of Experts To Look Into BCL
The team is expected to commence work this Monday, according to the Minister of Mineral Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security, Eric Molale who toured the mine last Friday. “I will make sure that the team is constituted before I leave...
Onalenna Kelebeile 29 October 2018
BOFEPUSU Wins Interim Relief In De-Recognition Case
Recently, the government through the Directorate of Public Service Management (DPSM) took a decision to de-recognise the unions through a letter dated October 16, 2018 from DPSM’s director. The move did not go down well with the unions under...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 29 October 2018
Suspects In Driver's Licence Scam Back At Work
The 19 examiners at DRTS were sent home over a scam that crippled licencing centres countrywide. Early last year, The Monitor reported that DRTS examiners in Gaborone, Molepolole and Mahalapye were arrested for allegedly selling driver’s...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 29 October 2018
Zimbabwean Identified As Vigilante Bus Rank Mob Victim
The deceased was killed after allegedly being caught pick-pocketing. Borakanelo police are still investigating his murder, and have not made any arrests yet. “We managed to locate the victim’s parents who managed to identify him and a...
Pini Bothoko
| 29 October 2018
Thieves Steal IEC Tent
Mogoditshane Police Station Commander, superintendent Russ Letsebe confirmed they are investigating the theft that occurred at night and pleaded with members of the community to help in locating the stolen tent. “The tent was pitched along the...
Pini Bothoko
| 29 October 2018
Enraged Man Accidentally Burns Himself
But the idiom recently assumed another meaning (although incidents of a similar nature have occurred in the past) when a man who suspected that his girlfriend was cheating him with another man, the lover unleashed a torrent of fury that ended up...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 29 October 2018
Confusion As BEC Postpones Marking JC Papers
The markers, also known as moderators, went back to their bases until further notice. The suspension of the marking of the two papers last week followed a stalemate between BEC and the subject’s moderators over commuter fees that the exam body...
Staff Writer 29 October 2018
My Vote, My Weapon
Together with a researcher from the newly established Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) of South Africa, I was sponsored to study the 50th elections of one of the world’s oldest democracies. Now, India is a world of great poor/wealth...
Pamela Dube
| 29 October 2018
The Undefeated - Nama In Botswana (PART 6)
In response additional German troops were dispatched to the area along what is now Botswana’s south-western border with Namibia in the hope of forcing a decisive showdown. On March 3, 1908 a six-man German patrol was wiped out by...
Jeff Ramsay
| 29 October 2018
World Mental Health Day - A Reflection On
A few articles ago, we addressed suicide in our generation as one of the tells of mental health. The piece, “And Sometimes Taking up Space Hurts”, addressed the statistics of suicide in Botswana, and looks at how and why youth between 18...
Lesego Nswahu Nchunga
| 29 October 2018
Kgoroba calls on Masisi to intervene in land impasse
“Our main problem in Mogoditshane is our land board. It is under staffed and I wrote to the President two months ago calling on him to employ more people or close it temporarily to have the employees deal with the backlog. I am yet to get a...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 29 October 2018
Masisi, Multitudes Catch Cultural Fever At Mmakgodumo
The colourful jam-packed event, which was in its fifth year, gave people an opportunity to taste the traditional cuisines including seswaa, dinawa, ditloo, bogobe ja lerotse, traditional brew just to mention a few. Traditional dance music...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 29 October 2018
BMD Not Taking Expulsion Lying Down
They are also challenging the composition of the UDC National Executive Committee (NEC), particularly the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) membership. The BMD national executive committee met yesterday to finalise their decision to sue. “We are...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 29 October 2018
BIF Beneficiaries Unveiled
The beneficiaries on the grant are amongst them Eco Hub, Kebalepile Technologies and Innovation, Aeronautical Solutions, Pyro Carbon Energy, Smartcom, Intelligent Traffic Management and Motheo Technologies. The first call for proposals was issued in...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 29 October 2018
Segokgo joins BNF
The council chairperson for South East District Council (SEDC) has finally made a decision to join the party that he had in the past expressed intention to join but never did. Segokgo says he will as of today submit his application for BNF membership...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 29 October 2018
Wanderers player dies in car accident
Murirwa also died in a car accident on Friday, just a few kilometres from Sua Town where he was returning from Francistown. Matoteng, born in Tumasera, met his fate in Radisele as he was driving from Palapye. Palapye Police Station Traffic...
Koketso Kgoboge 29 October 2018
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